tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 10

REIMBURSEMENT: Rural Reforms Snard in Medicare Reform Tangle

Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has shot down Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-Iowa) provision to equalize payments between rural and urban physicians, its fate has become tied to that of President Bush's overall Medicare reform plan, which pushes patients into private insurance plans in exchange for more benefits. Many doubt that the Bush plan can pass both houses of bill would be doomed as well. "I don't know if we're going to get a Medicare bill," said Iowa's other senator, Democrat Tom Harkin, who cosponsored Grassley's amendment and has long pushed for geographic equity in Medicare...

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